A honey of an interview with Keytar Bear

That's gotta be a typo. My busker friends were making at least $100 a day 20+ years ago.

How do you keep your keytar lifestyle secret from your friends?

My friends don’t know at all, that’s the whole thing about it [laughs]. I stash the suit between my mattress in the bedroom.

It’s kind of like a superhero alter-ego.

Yeah, exactly. Pretty much. It’s like an alter-ego, and everybody should have one.

And what does he ask in return for this lifestyle of secrecy?

That’s the only way you can keep Keytar Bear alive, if you keep him in an air-conditioned environment surrounded by girls. If someone can donate a condo, throw a condo in there for me, and I’ll be perfect. That’s all I need to survive: a condo, a bunch of chicks. Simple.

I don't know if musicians are eligible for the Medal of Honor, but...

He's really surprisingly good. I find most buskers kinda dull, but I always stop and listen to Keytar Bear when he's out.

Actually I thought that was a somewhat unfair characterization by Adam. Keytar didn't say he hated schoolkids, he just said they were sometimes so hyper he had to take a break:

"I usually take a break around 2 p.m. and 5 p.m. because of the school kids, you know? They grab your ass during a selfie, they fool around. I used to be a school kid, too, but these little motherfuckers don’t want to go home. You have to turn off the music, like, ‘no more Keytar Bear for you, man, go home.’"

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I have seen a picture of Keytar Bear with the mask pushed up above his face (worn like a hat). I suspect it gets hot and he needs some fresh air now and then. Anyway, the unmasked picture significantly resembles the guy in the picture at the top of this thread. Pretty sure it's the same guy.